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Eclectic Mag. Sept. 11/1: A coward who had dropped his ‘ineffables’ while running away.at ineffables, n.
Eclectic Mag. Sept. 11/1: A coward who had dropped his ‘ineffables’ while running away. Eclectic Mag. July 416/2: One was a tall robust Yankee [...] the other a short little Cockney [...] Zeke the Yankee had christened his comrade ‘Shorty’.at shorty, n.
Eclectic Mag. XVI 427: Lisa labored ten hours a-day, with a voice as tough as shoe-leather, and hoarse and uncertain; but on she went.at tough as shoe-leather (adj.) under tough, adj.
‘Heathen Chinee’ in Eclectic Mag. Ser. XIII 753: In his sleeves, which were long, he had twenty-four packs. Which was coming it strong.at come it strong (v.) under come it, v.1
Eclectic Mag. 82 732/1: The Jewish doctors of the Middle Ages, the money-dealers, brokers, pedlars, and old-clothesmen since, have only left in our streets a few such terms as shoful, or show-full, bad money or sham jewellery (Hebrew, shafal, low, base).at shoful, n.
Eclectic Mag. 52/1: In the days of his griffinhood — those first perilous twelve months — how many rocks ahead there are on which his bark may go down.at griffinhood (n.) under griffin, n.1
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